Some quick facts about meat consumption and the environment:

• 18% of greenhouse gases are caused by livestock farming.
• Transport only contributes to 13% of emissions.
• Methane is 21 times more potent than CO2 emissions.
• While a cow is eating it regurgitates often. Each time this occurs more methane is released.
• A cow produces 8-10 thousand liters of milk will produce 5-700 liters of methane every day.
• An average cow will produce 700 liters of methane each day. This is equivalent to CO2 emissions produced by a 4x4 vehicle traveling around 35 miles each day.
• 40-50% of all cereals are eaten not by humans but by livestock. 75% of soy is fed to livestock.
• China is the biggest meat increaser. China’s meat consumption is doubling every ten years.
• In one year a cow in the Netherlands will produce just as many emissions as a car that drives seventy thousand kilometers. This is equivalent to driving around the earth 1.5 times.
• Scientists say that it takes up far more land and energy to produce animal protein than it does to produce plant based protein.
• To produce animal products you need up to 10 times as much land that is needed to produce vegetable products.
• In the U.S. the meat industry uses 1/3 of fossil fuels that we generate.
• If every American replaced chicken with vegetarian food for just one meal a week it’d be the equivalent in CO2 of taking about 500,000 cars off U.S. roads. 
• Since 1950 over 2 million small family farms have disappeared. If they continue at this rate no family farms will remain.
• 10 billion animals are raised for food each year in the U.S. the average European will consume 80-85 animals per year.
• The FAO calculated that between 1950 and the year 2000 that then world population grew from 2.6 billion to 6 billion people, yet meat production increased from 45 to 233 billion kilos of meat each year.
• It’s predicted that there will be 9 billion people living by the year 2050. During this time meat production will double to 450 billion kilos (Or 990 pounds) of meat.
• The average person consumes 18,000 animals in their lifetime. 
• Going vegetarian for 7 days a week is the same as taking all cars off the U.S. roads.
• Going vegetarian for 6 days is the same as the total electricity use off all households in the U.S.
• Going vegetarian for 5 days a week is the same as planting 13 billion trees and letting them grow for 10 years.
• Going vegetarian for 4 days is the same as halving the domestic use of all electricity, gas, oil, petrol and kerosene in the U.S.
• Going vegetarian for 3 days a week is the same as saving 300 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions, which is a greater reduction than if all U.S. cars were replaced with Toyota Prius’s.
• Going vegetarian for 2 days a week is the same as replacing all household appliances with energy efficient appliances.
• Going vegetarian for just one day a week is the equivalent as saving 90 million plane tickets from New York to Los Angeles.

Source: Global Warming: MEAT THE TRUTH. watch full-length documentary on youtube.

*Just to note, these are facts from the source I linked. You might have different information/statistics. Don’t blame me for the differences. I am only taking what I got out of the documentary. 

bookmarked the documentary. though I am for the most part veg already—inspired by Food. Inc.—another documentary on food can’t be bad.

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